A collection of dark humored short stories about life in the workplace and beyond. The opening installment, "Increasing the Gerbils," will introduce you to a surreal and strangely symbiotic world in which the precious life fluids of the worker are drained like tree sap to be fed to the company gerbils, which scurry through a network of tubes throughout the offices. Seat yourself in the place of a semi-autobiographical nameless hero, as he tackles marriage and inter-office romance in, "Cat Lover," and "Futile Love". Bemuse yourself over your fellow workers and banal tasks in, "The Doomed One," "The Infiltrator," and "Dark Spiral". Or leave the company behind entirely and search for that elusive something more in the three part "Escape" series (a 1993 Eisner Award nominee). Finally, witness the entire web unravel in "The Gerbil King," where the surreal and the real collide into a self-destructive nightmare.